BY LISA LAMM
PUBLISHED ON 10 FEB 2023 AT 13:13 CET
In 1945, Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering nuclear fission. His colleague of many years, the physicist Lise Meitner, got nothing – even though her knowledge and her work were essential for the award-winning discovery.
Lise Meitner is not alone with this omission. Numerous women scientists have suffered the same fate throughout history: their achievements have been forgotten, sidelined or ignored in the history of science. This systematic discrimination is so widespread that it even has a name: the Matilda effect. FOR MORE
